You better watch out, you better stay dry; Operation Christmas has come to town.

The unit of emergency workers set up a spot check on King St. in Shelburne, stopping all drivers in both directions.

The checkpoint not only focused on impaired driving but also wreck-less driving and vehicles that shouldn’t be out on the road in the first place.

Emergency workers were handing out candy canes as well as advice to plan ahead during the holidays and to be safe.

“The bottom line is to show people that we are out there during the Christmas season,� explained Constable Roland Lavoie an investigator of traffic services for western Nova Scotia.

“Don’t be foolish, don’t be doing what you shouldn’t be doing including impaired driving,� he warns.

Although the spot checks will make most people more cautious and plan ahead, Constable Lavoie admits it’s hard to catch an impaired driver.

“There is so much traffic piling up they see you from a distance so they turn around.�

During the spot check there was a car trying to avoid the blockade of emergency vehicles and lineup of cars.

Constable Lavoie jumped into his cruiser and chased after the vehicle with its sirens wailing.

“Nine out of ten times it turns out to be someone in a rush to get somewhere and wants to avoid the lineup,� Constable Lavoie said, as it was in the case of the detouring vehicle.

As part of Operation Christmas, the NSLC will be donating $1 to MADD Canada, to a limit of $30,000.

With every visit to the website, www.lotsofways.com/MADD">www.lotsofways.com there will also be a chance to win $1000.

Operation Christmas will be setting up random spot checks day and night till after New Years in the Tri-County region of Digby, Yarmouth and Shelburne.